Upgrade from Nvidia Gtx 260 ??

[chapin_Fourlife]

I got a GTX 260 currently running hitman at an average 23fps in ultra 1080p
with a i7 920
I want to get about 30fps which video card do you guys recommend under $200



Thanks

 

[MrC4]

This 7850 with FC3 included for $150 after $20 MIR is a steal and will hit your FPS target.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125451

 

[dragonstongue]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202004 for a bit more then the gigabyte card, this is a known great overclocker and keeps all parts of the card cool(core-memory-vregs) and is also very quiet.

The gigabyte cards(may have changed) had a horrible cooling system that does not cool the Vregs and memory properly but keeps the core very cool, where most of the other makers MSI-Sapphire-power color etc have thier coolers take care of the complete card and not skimp on the vreg cooliing esp.

That is a good price, but really, for not that much more, I would go with the sapphire card, much better designed, better supported, and the siftware available to help get the most out of it(TRIXX) is top notch, I use it with my MSI card

 

[raghu78]

get the PCS+ HD 7850 2GB. fastest factory overclocked HD 7850 at 1 Ghz. matches a GTX 660 at stock speeds. comes with free farcry 3 game coupon. do not buy a 1 GB card. even at 1080p quite a few games like BF3, Skyrim with mods run out of VRAM at the highest settings with MSAA

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131472

 

[teletran8]

My advice is to use MSI Afterburner and MSI onscreen Display to set a frame rate limit of 30-40 in hitman when you get your new card. Yes I read over @ Guru 3D that the AMD GPU's score better fps in Hitman than the Nvidia cards do dollar4dollar but that is what usually happens if a game is catered to AMD gaming evolved or Nvidia the way its meant to be played. Hitman is a Gaming evolved title.

 

[dragonstongue]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1699636 thread about which 7850 to get.

Thing is, factory overclocked or not, its better to get the best cooling one that the clocks will not be getting in the way, MSI 7850 power edition is one of the best overclockers for the 7850 cards, and it also has probably the best cooler on it as well.

If I were to get any card, I make sure to get one with a great cooler, the PCS+ has a betetr then reference cooler, but clocking it up(which they all can do quite well) will rely on the cooler for the most performance, for this the sapphire dual fan and MSI dual fan(power edition is one of them) are the best coolers, the gigabyte one is a cheap cooler, and the DCII isn`t even made for the 7850

If you use sapphire TRIXX or MSI afterburner you can easily clock any good 7850 to reach the PCS+ speeds takes maybe 5mins of time, more if you really want to take it to its best spot without throwing a whack of voltage through it. somehting like Heaven DX11 benchmark can help this alot.